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As a boy, Vallejo attended a harsh school / Bowen, Jerry [628] [WAYITWAS-2006-628]
You can thank your lucky stars you weren't born when Mariano Vallejo entered the world of the Spanish dons in early California.
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Vacaville in Ashes / Bowen, Jerry [35] [WAYITWAS-2000-35]
June 6, 1877. The north wind was hot and harsh on the dry landscape surrounding the small town of Vacaville. At the southwest end of town, Tom Wilson had just returned from Suisun, put his horse in the barn and gone into the house. It was quiet in their home because his mother, Luzena, and sister were visiting Yosemite [...]
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World War I Boy Scouts
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Rodeo - May Pole at Scally Ranch in circa 1920, 20 women riders - In the early 1920's Scally Brothers had an annual rodeo on their ranch whre Vallejo's Lake Currey is now located. 2000 people was the maximum attendance. The winding of the May Pole was perormed by 20 girls, with never a side-saddle in the group..
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The Founder Of Our City / Wichels, Ernest [808] [WICHELS-1964-808]
Tuesday, July 4th, marks the 156th anniversary of the birth of the founder of the City of Vallejo. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo was born in Monterey, California, on July 7, 1808, the eighth child in a family of thirteen children. The parents were Don Ignacio Vicente Ferrer Vallejo and Senora Marie Antonia Lugo Vallejo.
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Settlers followed the Spanish Trail to Solano / Bowen, Jerry [603] [WAYITWAS-2005-603]
Today, travel from one corner of our continent to the other and indeed the entire world, is generally well-mapped and with so many modes of travel, quite easy.
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Temperance, taxes part of librarys past / Bowen, Jerry [537] [WAYITWAS-2004-537]
During several of the Solano County Historical Society meetings to save the old Fairfield Library building, some of those in attendance from Vallejo expressed continuing anger over the razing of the Vallejo Carnegie Library building.
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Vallejo: the man who shaped California history / Dingler, Nancy [479] [RETROSPECT-2003-479]
Without a doubt, the single most influential person in California history was Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Mariano was one of those rare individuals, in that he was born and educated in California. Mariano rose to great heights of power and wealth, only to lose it when his dream of being part of the democratic America came true.
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WWI took its share of local boys / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [130] [WAYITWAS-2002-130]
World War I, which started in 1914, shaped the 20th century and influenced people's lives around the world.
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Gen. Vallejo sets out to tame the territories / Delaplane, Kristin [251] [ECHOS-1995-251]
First in a series Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Solano Genealogical Society and Solano Historian. Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, born in 1808, was to become the most prominent man in Northern California. He could date his ancestors back to the days of Columbus, when Alonzo Vallejo, admiral to the Spanish King, escorted Columbus back to Spain.
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